New Palm Pilot

That's some of the SMD soldering i did. SMD stands for surface mount device, as opposed to hole mount devices. SMDs stick right to the surface of printed circuit boards. Hole mount devices have legs which go through the circuit board, and get soldered from there. They're bigger, and waaaay easier to work with. So i'm proud that my SMD work is... i dunno, fairly neat. I hope nothing burns up. I'm still waiting on some cheap 10,000 microfarad capacitors. I don't know why they aren't called 10 farad capacitors -- same thing. Nobody says they're two thousandths of a kilometer tall. I'm almost that tall.

Today i did get a cheap new (to me) Palm Pilot. It's not dented, it's barely scratched, it's got a pristine screen with a screen protector already stuck to it! The digitizer always (always!) responds to the stylus! Awesome. And it was $17. Including shipping.

So: the barrier to entry for reading e-books is not the cost of a Kindle. Because as astonishingly incredible (worthy of AWE!) as those are, they're pricey. And big, and possibly fragile. But they have free wireless browsing of Wikipedia, which makes my pulse race a little bit just thinking about. But you can read e-books on a Palm Pilot too! Karen reads books on her Palm Pilot, and Karen was really resistant to the whole idea.

So if you want me to hook you up with a cheap e-book reader, i totally will. Getting books onto the device is a little involved and geeky, but not prohibitively hard if you know how to get into undernet on IRC and accept DCC transfers... and then convert the files to clean html... use Plucker... okay, i'll do that too. Just buy one of these.

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